Born 180 Years Ago Mandeleev is Still Predicting New Elements

Mandeleev died on February 8th 1907, the man who created the periodic table of elements is still very much relevant to us. The elements had been listed and carefully arranged before Dmitri Mendeleev. They had even been organized by similar properties before. So why is Mendeelev’s periodic table the one that has endured? Lou Serico explains via Ekaaluminium, an element whose existence Mendeelev predicted decades before it was discovered.